The fries didn’t help. Ovechkin did not score points, but repeated the achievement of the Canadian legend
Maxim Makarov March 29, 2024, 05:30 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
Washington snapped its three-game winning streak and lost a chance to move up the standings.
Washington, with six wins in its last seven games, has clinched a spot in the wild card zone and is just one point behind Philadelphia, which occupies third place in the Metropolitan Division. For Toronto the situation is the opposite: four defeats in the last six games, in addition to the imminent danger of relegating from the top three of the Atlantic Division, Tampa, after the game with Boston, reduced the gap to two points. Yesterday a photograph circulated on social networks of how Alexander Ovechkin went on a trip taking fast food and French fries. Washington’s captain has his own nutritional method of his.
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Alexander Ovechkin was photographed with chips and fast food in his hand.
With his first shift of the game, Ovechkin tied for 36th in league history for most NHL appearances with Allan Mackins (1,416).
Already at the beginning of the game, Alexander Ovechkin confronted Jake McCabe harshly in the middle zone, which caused the Toronto players to act harshly.
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A couple of minutes later, Mark Giordano, playing his first game since February 29, hit Ovi in the face and was gone for two minutes. And halfway through the period, the Canadian decided to respond with an abandoned puck: Charlie Lindgren couldn’t stop a shot from the mid-zone at an awkward height.
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Washington failed to take into account the lessons from the previous meeting, when Toronto scored twice in the first minute of the period. Just 18 seconds into the second segment, Bertuzzi doubled the home lead with a shot from a negative angle. The Capitals finally found their chance five minutes later: Nik Dowd put his stick under Jensen’s shot.
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Dylan Strome had a great chance to even the score, he had already beaten Wall, but the defenders helped the goalie and after 20 seconds the puck was already in Lindgren’s goal. The classics say in these cases: if you don’t rate, you get rated.
In the first minute of the third period, Washington did not concede. I did it in the second. After that, both teams began to finish the game frankly, the game lost nerve and speed, which played into the hands of the hosts: Tyler Bertuzzi waited for Van Riemsdyk’s mistake, scored a double and established the final score.
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In this way, Washington interrupted its streak of three consecutive victories and lost the opportunity to move into third place in the division. Alexander Ovechkin left the court without scoring points for the second consecutive game. And Toronto won the third head-to-head against the capital this season.
